Including Holder Having Seat For Inserted Tool Patents (Class 407/66)
  • Patent number: 7534075
    Abstract: A tool is proposed for metal-cutting machining of bore surfaces with at least one cutter insert (1s, 1?s; 1u, 1?u, 1?u) which is let into the end face (41) of the tool (10) and at least one cutter insert (1s, 1?s; 1u, 1?u, 1?u) which is let into the circumferential face (43) of the tool (10), said cutter inserts (1s, 1?s; 1u, 1?u, 1?u) having at least two geometrically defined cutting edges. Said tool is characterized by the fact that one of the cutting edges of the cutter inserts is embodied as a roughing cutting edge (17, 17?) and the other cutting edge of the cutter inserts is embodied as a finishing cutting edge (19, 19?), and in that the cutting edges are arranged on the two ends of a side edge (15, 15?) of the cutter inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrik für Präzisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friedrich Häberle
  • Patent number: 7510354
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool including a basic body and a cutting insert detachably connected to the basic body via an interface, which includes a pair of co-operating connecting surfaces in which engagement means are included, which may be in the form of knobs and seatings. A knob and a co-operating seating have a rotationally symmetrical, conical shape to prevent translation of the cutting insert in the plane of the interface. Another knob ensures that the cutting insert cannot be rotated in relation to the conical knob. Simultaneously, ample bearing surfaces abut against co-operating support surfaces in a connecting surface. In such a way, the cutting insert is fixed in a stable, non-overdetermined position in the basic body. Furthermore, the invention relates to a cutting insert as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Claes Andersson, Kjell Englund, Daniel Edler
  • Patent number: 7510353
    Abstract: An insert for use in a cutting tool having two truncated, wedge-shaped faces, and at least two edge surfaces. The insert also has a retainer hole extending through the insert at a predetermined angle to accommodate an insert retainer. The insert is indexable by repositioning the cutting insert from one face to the other face. The inserts are disposed in a plurality of circumferentially-spaced seats about a working end of a cutting tool body. Each seat has a major seating surface for mounting the insert and for receiving a retainer at a predetermined angle. The seat also has a minor seating surface oriented to engage an edge surface of the insert and to reduce the shear force against the retainer during rotation of the tool body. The tool body has angled chip pockets, resulting in more inserts per cutting tool diameter and a greater cross-sectional tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Remark Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Rodney M. Kramer
  • Patent number: 7476061
    Abstract: An indexable turning insert, which has a symmetrical, preferably rotationally symmetrical basic shape, that is determined by a clearance surface extending between a top side and an underside, and which includes a cutting edge as well as a coupling device located to the underside. The coupling device comprises at least two, preferably three, suitably equiangularly spaced-apart engagement members, preferably in the form of ridges, emanating radially from a center axis and having a pair of flanks that mutually form an obtuse angle. A turning tool and an attachment for the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Daniel Edler
  • Patent number: 7455482
    Abstract: An indexable cutting insert has at least first and second cutting edges and first and second edge-location surfaces associated with the first and second cutting edges, respectively. The insert-manufacturing procedure includes forming the first edge-location surface with reference to the first cutting edge, and then forming the second edge-location surface with reference to the second cutting edge. There results an indexable cutting insert having at least two spaced-apart chip-removing cutting edges and a plurality of location surfaces adapted to engage a base body for determining the spatial positions of respective cutting edges, wherein each location surface determines the spatial position of no more than one of the cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Göran Lundvall
  • Patent number: 7429150
    Abstract: A tool holder includes a shank portion, a head portion that includes an insert pocket defined by a seat surface, a first or radial support sidewall and a second or axial support sidewall, and a spherical contact point protruding from one of the first and second support sidewalls. The spherical contact point minimizes a contact area between a cutting insert mounted in the insert pocket and one of the first and second support sidewalls of the insert pocket. In one embodiment, the radial support sidewall includes two spherical contact points, and the axial support sidewall includes one spherical contact point. The spherical contact point may be formed by inserting a rivet-like structure into an aperture formed in the support sidewalls of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey F. Kovac
  • Publication number: 20080202296
    Abstract: This tool is for processing wheel tire profiles for wheels (5) on a railway vehicle wheelset on a wheelset lathe that has a cylindrical or mushroom-shaped cutting tool (22) made from a hard material, such as carbide or cutting ceramics, that is fixed to a tool holder (23) which is positioned in a tool support that can be moved into the x and z axes of the wheelset lathe. The tool holder (23) is aligned below an acute angle (?) of a tangent (33) to the circle of a cut and at a level (4) perpendicular to the wheel tire profile. It is also able to be turned and moved along its longitudinal axis (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: HEGENSCHEIDT-MFD GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Alfred Heimann
  • Patent number: 7409896
    Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining comprising a tool head, which is provided with insert seats for the receipt of replaceable cutting inserts as well as a fastening part intended to be received in a machine tool. The tool has at least two chip pockets, in each one of which two replaceable cutting inserts are arranged, the two cutting inserts arranged in each chip pocket being intended for different types of machining and having the active surfaces thereof opposite each other. Furthermore, the two cutting inserts arranged in a common chip pocket have their axially furthermost portions located at different levels in the axial direction of the tool. The two cutting inserts for turning are located in different chip pockets and have their axially furthermost portions thereof located at different levels in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Sture Sjöö, Ronnie Sikström
  • Patent number: 7402005
    Abstract: A cutting tip for automatic milling has the basic form of a parallelogram along whose longitudinal sides (1) straight cutting edges are constructed. Radius cutting edges which are located on the parallelogram transverse edges with the smaller corner angles are attached to it and run into edges which end in the area of the parallelogram transverse sides. In order to also use the transverse sides of the parallelogram type basic form for milling processes, cutting edges are arranged on the parallelogram transverse sides whereby at least one curvature radius (3) is substantially larger then the curvature radius of the radius cutting edges (2). Between these lesser curved cutting edges (3) and the radius cutting edges (2) there is an edge area (4) with a concave curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Depo GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz Deitert
  • Patent number: 7387474
    Abstract: A cutting insert having a front cutting edge and a connecting surface including male- and/or female-like engagement portions, in order to rigidly secure the cutting insert, a geometrically predetermined reference locus serving as a force-application spot for the clamping of the cutting insert. Simultaneously active engagement portions are of only two types—a first, elongate engagement portion, which is located between the front cutting edge and the reference locus, and a second, elongate engagement means, which is oriented at an angle to the first engagement portion and situated at a greater distance from the front cutting edge than the reference locus. In such a way, it is guaranteed that a tightening force always is applied to the cutting insert in a substantially triangular area, which is defined by the free ends of the engagement portions. Furthermore, a tool for chip removing machining, as well as an attachment, e.g., a shim plate, for such tools is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Daniel Edler, Claes Andersson, Jörgen Wiman, Kjell Englund
  • Patent number: 7357603
    Abstract: A toolholder at least one cutting insert mounted within a pocket about the peripheral wall of the cutter body. The body includes a pocket having an angled retention ledge which provides acts, in conjunction with a fastener, to securely retain an insert mounted therein. The insert has an angled edge which conforms with and works in conjunction with the toolholder pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Hoefler, Stephen J. Shubert, Ruy Frota de Souza Filho, Scott W. Lebo, Ronald L. Dudzinsky
  • Publication number: 20080085164
    Abstract: A router plane having a collar maintained in snug engagement with a blade shank during blade height adjustment to facilitate accurate adjustment with a threaded adjustment nut that travels on an adjustment post. The collar is retained on a post secured to the router plane body so that the collar can rotate between blade in-board and blade out-board positions without removal from the post.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Terry R. Saunders, Ewan Smith
  • Patent number: 7347650
    Abstract: A cutting tool for chip removing including a cutting insert provided with a through hole, a J shaped locking pin actuated by a locking screw, and a tool holder having means to receive the cutting insert, the locking screw and the locking pin. The cutting insert is positioned in place by passing its hole over the clamping head of the locking pin and is securely locked into the tool holder's receiving pocket in both horizontally and vertically directions. For some embodiments the insert is clamped due to a simultaneous tilting and downward sliding movement of the locking pin while for other embodiments the insert is clamped due to both a horizontal and a vertical force which are components of a pulling force applied by the locking pin. A shim can be installed by passing its hole over the lower end of the locking pin and it is secured in place by the means of a collar that is provided by the locking pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Inventor: Vichente Tipu
  • Patent number: 7313992
    Abstract: Tube ends such as those of boiler tube banks, are prepared utilizing any of various combinations of processes which include a step of micro-diameter tube film removal from a portion of a tube end, including an area below a beveled segment, or segment to be beveled. The micro-diameter film removal step provides the tube with an exposed, clean metal surface which is conducive to a subsequent welding or bonding operation performed on the tube. In yet a further embodiment, tube film removal blades are provided having a curved or rounded edge which can be utilized in milling operations having close quarters. In a further embodiment, milling head cutting blades are provided which are adjustable. In a preferred embodiment, the milling head cutting blades and/or bevel blades are provided with elongated, slotted bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: H&S Tool, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Randall Hall
  • Publication number: 20070280790
    Abstract: A tool holder includes a shank portion, a head portion that includes an insert pocket defined by a seat surface, a first or radial support sidewall and a second or axial support sidewall, and a spherical contact point protruding from one of the first and second support sidewalls. The spherical contact point minimizes a contact area between a cutting insert mounted in the insert pocket and one of the first and second support sidewalls of the insert pocket. In one embodiment, the radial support sidewall includes two spherical contact points, and the axial support sidewall includes one spherical contact point. The spherical contact point may be formed by inserting a rivet-like structure into an aperture formed in the support sidewalls of the pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventor: Jeffrey F. Kovac
  • Patent number: 7249917
    Abstract: A boring tool for use in a tool holder, such as a boring head, that is driven about a drive axis and includes a pair of parallel bores for mounting boring tools generally includes a body including a cutting edge and a pair of mounting shanks for mounting in the bores of the tool holder. Preferably, the mounting shanks can be mounted in either bore and the cutting edge is disposed on the body so as to be different distances from the driven axis depending upon in which bores the mounting shanks are mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Inventor: James P. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7153068
    Abstract: A milling cutter with a disk like cutter body having radially directed slots and a central aperture. An exchangeable hub comprises two adapter members located on either side of the cutter body. One of the adapter members has a raised portion located in the central aperture. The adapter members are secured to the cutter body by means of pins which are located in blind holes in the adapter members and which pass through engagement members positioned in the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Iscar Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Satran, Yaron Eisen
  • Patent number: 6974282
    Abstract: A toolholder for a small-size insert having a shoulder for use with a machine tool for grooving, boring and turning has a substantially planar surface portion in an end portion which defines at least one insert-receiving recess extending inwardly into the body of the toolholder, and the end portion defining at least one abutment surface against which the shoulder of the insert may abut to readily orient and rapidly and readily secure the insert in the toolholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Kaiser Tool Company
    Inventors: Ken King, Doug DeWitt, Jeff Frank, Eric Bustos, Dave Coleman
  • Patent number: 6974281
    Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining includes an insert holder and a cutting insert attached thereto. The holder includes a longitudinal center axis and terminates in a support surface at a front end of the holder. The support surface defines a seat to which the insert is removably attached. The support surface forms a 45-degree angle with the center axis. The cutting insert includes a contact surface for mounting the insert to the seat, and a plurality of fingers projecting generally radially with respect to the center axis. Each finger includes a cutting edge and an associated chip surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Per Hansson, Jörgen Wiman, Sture Sjöö
  • Patent number: 6960049
    Abstract: A cutting tool has an insert shaped as a parallelogram that is detachably mounted by a clamp screw 4 on a tip mounting face of a holder. Concave grooves are formed like parallel stripes on the tip mounting face of the holder, and convex lines are formed on the abdominal face of the insert to be fitted in the concave grooves, so that the insert is clamped by the clamp screw to the holder in a state where the convex lines are fitted in the concave grooves on the tip mounting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Inayama
  • Patent number: 6955507
    Abstract: Tube ends such as those of boiler tube banks, are prepared utilizing any of various combinations of processes which include a step of micro-diameter tube film removal from a portion of a tube end, including an area below a beveled segment, or segment to be beveled. The micro-diameter film removal step provides the tube with an exposed, clean metal surface which is conducive to a subsequent welding or bonding operation performed on the tube. Preferably, the process is performed with a tube milling tool having interchangeable milling or cutting heads. A specialized milling head is also disclosed and, in one embodiment, is at least used to perform the micro-diameter tube film removal step. Advantageously, the tube film removal milling head also removes a weld overlay on one or both sides of a tube in one embodiment. The tube film removal milling head includes an attached blade having a planar face configuration which enables tube film removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: H&S Tool, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Randall Hall
  • Patent number: 6877935
    Abstract: Cutting tool for drilling and turning. The cutting tool includes a base body having a clamping part and a working part axially spaced from each other, and an indexable tip, releasably connected to the working part, having a hexagonal shape having at least one circumferential cutting edge and obtuse and acute corner angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Böhlerit Ges. M.B.H. & Co. KG
    Inventors: Armin Schlemmer, Gerhard Melcher
  • Patent number: 6749376
    Abstract: A tool holder having two distinct phases, a first phase in which the tool is held in an interference fit with sufficient mechanical interaction between the two for the tool to be rotated at high speed and perform its intended purpose on a workpiece, and a second phase in which the tool is sufficiently released from the interference fit to be rapidly removed from the holder (as by an automated apparatus).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Command Tooling Systems, LLC
    Inventors: William R Keefe, Randolf N. Johnson, Christopher M. Lodermeier, Peter J. Ness, Bradley E. Rowell, Mark A. Shannon, John Niethammer
  • Patent number: 6733366
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel has an outboard face which includes a smoothed portion to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face. The smoothed portion is formed by pressing a cutting tool having a non-symmetrical tip against the wheel surface as the wheel is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey L. Gatton, Richard T. Guernsey
  • Publication number: 20030059264
    Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining includes an insert holder and a cutting insert attached thereto. The holder includes a longitudinal center axis and terminates in a support surface at a front end of the holder. The support surface defines a seat to which the insert is removably attached. The support surface forms a 45-degree angle with the center axis. The cutting insert includes a contact surface for mounting the insert to the seat, and a plurality of fingers projecting generally radially with respect to the center axis. Each finger includes a cutting edge and an associated chip surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Per Hansson, Jorgen Wiman, Sture Sjoo
  • Patent number: 6464433
    Abstract: An elongate support member such as a boring bar. The support member includes a body with an exterior surface and an exterior region adjacent to the exterior surface thereof. The body has an interior region remote from the exterior surface. The interior region is contiguous with the exterior region so as to define an interface therebetween. The interior region is of a first hardness, and a portion of the exterior region adjacent to the exterior surface is of a second hardness wherein the second hardness is greater than the first hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Kennametal PC Inc.
    Inventor: William R. Shaffer
  • Publication number: 20020141834
    Abstract: A tool for material-removing machining of workpieces of hard metal with a blade plate held by a clamping lug is suggested which is distinguished in that the blade plate (11) has a groove (25) provided on the front side (45) in which the clamping lug (13) engages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Dieter Kress, Friederich Haberle
  • Publication number: 20020094245
    Abstract: Cutting tool for drilling and turning. The cutting tool includes a base body having a clamping part and a working part axially spaced from each other, and an indexable tip, releasably connected to the working part, having a hexagonal shape having at least one circumferential cutting edge and obtuse and acute corner angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: BOHLERIT Ges.mb.H & Co. KG
    Inventors: Armin Schlemmer, Gerhard Melcher
  • Publication number: 20020071728
    Abstract: A tool holder having two distinct phases, a first phase in which the tool is held in an interference fit with sufficient mechanical interaction between two for the tool to be rotated at high speed and perform its intended purpose on a workpiece, and a second phase in which the tool is sufficiently released from the interference fit to be rapidly removed from the holder (as by an automated apparatus).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: William R. Keefe, Randolf N. Johnson, Christopher M. Lodermeier, Peter J. Ness, Bradley E. Rowell, Mark A. Shannon, John Niethammer
  • Patent number: 6126365
    Abstract: A boring tool includes a concave groove formed on the outer peripheral surface of a tool body on the side opposite from a cutting blade with respect to an axis of the tool body. The concave, groove 10 is formed so as to extend from a position x, which is separated rearwardly from a front end face of a head portion, toward the rear side, and to be open downward from above a rake face. Furthermore, a sub-groove is formed between the concave groove and a chip pocket. Accordingly, the natural frequency is increased by reducing the weight of the head portion while limiting rigidity reduction, thereby restricting chattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Okawa, Hidehiko Nagaya, Kazuya Yamazaki, Yoichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6113319
    Abstract: A blade-shaped tool holder for metal cutting machining comprises a blade part formed of a first metallic material, and a core of a sub micron hard material disposed in the blade part for stiffening the blade part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Per Hansson, Karl-Goran Brask
  • Patent number: 6076999
    Abstract: A boring bar includes a shaft and a head which carries a cutting insert. The head includes a conical protrusion which fits in a correspondingly shaped recess of the shaft and is secured therein by an adhesive joint in order to damp vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Anna Hedberg, Eric Tjernstrom
  • Patent number: 6033158
    Abstract: In a small-shank cutting tool for an automatic lathe or like turning machine, the tool shank defines at least one tool-supporting region having a width of less than 9 mm on a tool-supporting end of the shank. The tool-supporting region defines a tool recess formed by two tool-supporting surfaces oriented at an acute angle relative to each other. A rhomboidal-shaped tool insert of the cutting tool is seated within the tool recess of the shank with two sides of the insert each engaging a respective tool-supporting surface of the shank, and a substantial portion of the other two sides of the insert extending beyond the end of the shank and forming a cutting tip for cutting a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Inventor: William R. Fountaine
  • Patent number: 5888029
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly comprising a tool holder formed with an insert retaining pocket having a pocket base wall and in which is releasably mounted a cutting insert and a shim. The cutting insert is of a substantially prismatic shape having an upper surface, a lower surface and side relief flank surfaces and at least one cutting corner defined therebetween and presenting at least one cutting edge formed by the intersection of the upper surface and a corresponding number of the side relief surfaces adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Iscar Ltd.
    Inventor: Gideon Boianjiu
  • Patent number: 5820310
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly comprising a tool holder formed with an insert retaining pocket having a pocket base wall and in which is releasably mounted a cutting insert and a shim. The cutting insert is of a substantially prismatic shape having an upper surface, a lower surface and side relief flank surfaces and at least one cutting corner defined therebetween and presenting at least one cutting edge formed by the intersection of the upper surface and a corresponding number of the side relief surfaces adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Iscar Ltd
    Inventor: Gideon Boianjiu
  • Patent number: 5779400
    Abstract: In a small-shank cutting tool for a Swiss-type automatic lathe, the tool shank defines a square cross-sectional shape having a width of either 7 mm or 8 mm, and a tool recess defined at one end of the shank by two tool-supporting surfaces oriented at an acute angle relative to each other. A rhomboidal-shaped tool insert of the cutting tool is seated within the tool recess of the shank with two sides of the insert each engaging a respective tool-supporting surface of the shank, and a substantial portion of the other two sides of the insert extending beyond the end of the shank and forming a cutting tip for cutting a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventor: William R. Fountaine
  • Patent number: 5423719
    Abstract: An abrasive tool such as a drill bit has a body with a working face (10). Undercut recesses (12) are formed in the working face (10). Cutting inserts (16) which present working ends (20) are located in the recesses (12). Locking means (24) in the recesses engage between the undercuts (14) and formations (22) on the inserts (16). This locks the inserts (16) against withdrawal from the recesses (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Inventor: Bernard A. Jennings
  • Patent number: 5222841
    Abstract: A system is provided for a set of form tools which utilize a common shank to be able to machine a number of different shapes. A pad is provided which sits between the cutting tool and the shank where the pad is of such a shape and dimension as to provide support for the cutting member, the shank being merely a mounting device. The cutting member and pad may be wider or narrower than the shank and may either extend forward of the shank or behind the forward edge of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Graco Inc.
    Inventor: Boris E. Simkhovich
  • Patent number: 5193945
    Abstract: A cutting tool having a positioning block inserted between the cutting insert and the insert-receiving seat is disclosed. The disclosed cutting tool demonstrates excellent resistance to damage by severe vibration caused by the milling process. The cutting tool of the present invention comprises (a) a tool body having a recess formed at a forward end thereof and defining a insert-receiving seat; (b) a cutting insert; (c) a positioning block to be placed between the cutting insert and said insert-receiving seat, having a top and bottom faces and having a hardness thereof which is lower than that of a surface of an insert-receiving seat; and (d) clamp means for securing the cutting insert and the positioning block on the insert-receiving seat. The above described positioning block is able to absorb some extent of vibration of the cutting insert during the milling process. According to the present invention, there is also provided the cutting tool in which a positioning block has two layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Nakayama, Masayuki Okawa, Junichi Saito
  • Patent number: 5112165
    Abstract: A tool for cutting solid material includes a tool body having a recess, and a cutting insert received in the recess. The cutting insert has spacing buttons which engage a surface of the recess to create a space for accommodating a brazing material which secures the insert to the tool body. The surface of the recess includes an annular retaining groove which receives the buttons in order to prevent tilting of the insert prior to brazing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Jan-Gunnar Hedlund, Bengt A. Asberg
  • Patent number: 4983078
    Abstract: The inner peripheral portion of the blade material is made thinner than the outer peripheral portion thereof. This serves to make greater, as compared with conventional cutter bodies, the distance between the adjacent portions of the cutter body where the respective inner peripheral portions of the blade material are adapted to rest, thus enabling the rigidity of the cutting tool itself to be improved. On top of this, the rake face of the blade material can be reground, when necessary, until the material is completely used up and worn away, thus making it possible to make full and efficient use of the blade material without any waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Inventor: Atsuo Unozawa
  • Patent number: 4938641
    Abstract: A parting tool is provided having a tool shank and an interchangeable blade support connected thereto. The blade support is equipped with a blade attachment of blade. The blade support makes contact along one side thereof with a broad-side of the tool shank. The blade support has narrow sides which are guided, at least on sections, by two guide surfaces of the tool shank typically disposed on flanges. Flat contact surfaces on said flanges perpendicularly disposed in relation to the broad side of the tool shank butt against two corresponding counter guide surfaces on said blade support and are pressed against each other by clamping means such as longitudinally off-set screws. In comparison with earlier parting tools used for the same applications, the parting tools of the invention can be made smaller in overall height and provide extremely stable connection between the blade support and the tool shank, thereby greatly reducing rattling and vibrations during normal cutting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Schwarzkopf Development Corporation
    Inventor: Johann Maier
  • Patent number: 4934879
    Abstract: In a cutting tool having a cutting element, the rake angle in the region following the land is approximately 35.degree. and decreases with increasing distance from the land. Beginning at a distance from the land corresponding approximately to the width of the land, a plurality of chip ridges project from the cutting face in the region between the cutting point regions to form a rake angle of about one-half the rake angle of the cutting face and whose frontal face on the side of the cutting edge projects to about the level of the land. The cutting face regions following the cutting face regions disposed between the chip ridges when seen in the chip discharge direction are configured as ramp elevations and are provided with run-up ramps ascending from the cutting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Nederlandse Hardmetaal Fabrieken B.V.
    Inventor: Marinus van Barneveld
  • Patent number: 4909677
    Abstract: A throw away cutting tool comprising a holder formed with a wedge groove and a throw away insert having a cutting edge at one end thereof and a wedge portion at the outer end, the wedge portion being adapted to be clamped in the wedge groove by elasticity of the material of the holder. The holder is at least partly made of cemented carbide for higher rigidity and cutting stability. Also, the radius of curvature at the deep end of the wedge groove is optimized for crack resistance. Further, the angle of the V-ridge on the holder is interrelated to the angle of the V-groove in the insert for more holding stability and crack resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Noguchi, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Masafumi Hideshima, Tsuyoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 4180357
    Abstract: Corrugated tubing is advanced along its axial path by rotatably driven lead screw members the screw threading of which is in meshing engagement with the corrugations of the tubing, the lead screw members being in pairs with the screw threading of the members of each pair being of opposite hand and the lead screw members of each pair being rotated in opposite directions. The lead screw members of each pair present outwardly directed cutters which are synchronized substantially simultaneously to intersect the tubing thereby, in perforating the tubing, to restrain the tubing against rotation thereof about the axial path. There is also disclosed a method of producing the lead screw members with the outwardly projecting cutters mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Inventors: Gerd P. H. Lupke, Manfred A. A. Lupke
  • Patent number: 4117563
    Abstract: A thread chaser tool with cutting edge defined by two symetrical points. The tip radii of the two points are spaced apart slightly less than the pitch of a thread to be cut. The thread form is generated by the inside flanks of each point and a crestforming radius there between. Both points cooperate in forming the long flanks of either male or female tapered threads, and both points form straight threads having two roots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: Otis Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: John V. Fredd
  • Patent number: 4087194
    Abstract: A cutting tool which may comprise: an elongated bar member having a body portion and an end portion; and an anvil member removably fastened to the end portion of the bar member for rigidly clamping a cutting insert to the bar member for radial projection therefrom. The end portion of the bar member and anvil member, when fastened together, may form a cylindroid which in at least some embodiments may have a central longitudinal axis which is parallel but offset from the central longitudinal axis of the bar member body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Triangle Grinding, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor C. Takacs, Joseph E. Takacs
  • Patent number: 4077734
    Abstract: An insert, especially a hard wear resistant insert, such as an insert of cemented hard metal carbide, for use in a mining tool or the like. The insert is especially adapted for being press fitted into the body of a mining tool or the like but may also be brazed or cemented therein. The insert has a rounded outer end and a flat inner end and tapers inwardly immediately adjacent the flat inner end and is rounded at the periphery of the flat inner end thereby eliminating stress risers in the insert and providing for easier insertion thereof into a bore in a tool body into which the insert is seated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1978
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: John F. Kita